Development Finance Invests in Food for the Future

This blog post highlights FinDev Canada's investment in Nutropy, a female-founded company innovating in sustainable food solutions by producing animal-free dairy products using precision fermentation. The investment exemplifies how development finance can drive healthier food systems, climate resilience, and gender equity in emerging sectors. It underscores FinDev Canada’s threefold impact mandate: advancing climate action, empowering women, and promoting economic development, while supporting inclusive business models that align innovation with SDG-aligned outcomes. The piece also illustrates how gender-lens investing (GLI) and climate finance can converge in the food and agriculture sectors to support equitable access to nutrition and sustainable value chains.